What oil/lotion do you use on skin before a meet to cut time? Is baby oil ok to use before a race or is there another commercial product specifically designed for swimming competition? Thanks.
It is no longer legal to use oils etc. for the purpose of swimming faster.
102.12.1E No swimmer is permitted to wear or use any device or substance to enhance speed, pace, buoyancy, or endurance during a race (such as webbed gloves, fins, power bands, adhesive substances, snorkels, neoprene caps, etc.). Goggles may be worn, and rubdown oil applied if not considered excessive by the referee...
102.12.1E No swimmer is permitted to wear or use any device or substance to enhance speed, pace, buoyancy, or endurance during a race (such as webbed gloves, fins, power bands, adhesive substances, snorkels, neoprene caps, etc.). Goggles may be worn, and rubdown oil applied if not considered excessive by the referee...
So then why do we wear silicone/latex swim caps?
Dan
To answer Force's question...
1. Because it is allowed in 102.21.1B as swimwear
2. Because it keeps the hair from my rapidly balding head out of my eyes. :-)
